IBM XT 5160 Retrofit

[gbowne1]

ooooh thats cool. a DVD out of the full height 5-1/4' drive

[MrBigk1010]

Thanks for the Great Video ! Now I know how to use up all my leftover cabinet space !

[merouby]

You just need to fit an LCD to an an original IBM monitor, and fit it on top of the case. How'd you get the mouse to work??

[Neolith100]

Great job! You should let Hackaday know... and document how!

[2wayfreq]

Question: Is the original power supply used for powering the new hardware or is it just for looks? Phenomenal job by the way, I want to do this as well!

[kingcrimson234]

NOOOOOO these fucking retrofits are DESTROYING good XTs!!!!!!!!!! fuck you, sir.

[xargos]

@kingcrimson234 The XT is still really easy to get. There is no real shortage, so I don't sed these retrofits as a threat to collectors.

[MetallicBill]

@xargos Can't be that many collectors, at least for old computers, I wound up with too many!

[mdrumt]

You should paint the monitor beige and retro fit and IBM badge to it! That would top it all off! :D

Overall love your work.

[TheToploaderwasher]

WOW!!!! :D

[VeronicaDeVore]

AMAZING! LOVE IT!!! Best case mod EVER!

[smcdermott015153fs00]

IBM XT 5160 running windows xp

[Zarac1121123]

epic its an XT with windows XP!!!!1

[rallyivan1234]

this sound of power... mmmm... i like

[bb1134]

Great job - Love the Windows 1.01 startup logo.

[chibichan1701]

Question though, there's no way to get a modern hard drive or power supply to reproduce that old grinding spin up sound that you seem to have retained (love the big chunky power switch having been left in place btw), so how'd you get it to make the sound of vintage hardware spooling up?

[zsoltixx93]

I like it :)

[Kittyslasher69]

We need to start a political program to retrofit new internal hardware into what's left of the classics, and other computer shells alike.

I am not going to let valuable metal go to waste just because the internals are obsolete.

THUMBS UP IF YOU WANT OLD PCs RETROFITTED LIKE THIS!

[Gatewayuser200]

@Kittyslasher69 never, WE SHOULD SAVE OLD COMPUTERS WITH THE ORGINAL HARDWARE

[HarryMatic]

Your DVD drive modification is stunning. The only give-away is that the computer is not really loud enough, perhaps you could have salvaged the fan from the old IBM power supply :-)

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

i hate todays hard drives spinups

[93axele]

great job! what specs does it have?

[tasvirukas]

Dude. Take old pc monitor, gut out all the hardware, leave only the casing. Put inside a LCD matrix. This will give ya more nostalgic look. And by the way, where is the nostalgic wallpaper? :D

Greetings from Lithuania.

[MixerVM]

You should make it so when you open the door on the disc drive, it ejects the cd

(I mean route the cd drive eject button so when the disc drive door opens, it pushes on the eject button and ejects the cd)

[c0rrupts3ct0r555]

nice mod!! i hear a WDC hdd startinng up when u turn on the PC. sounds like a good ole silvertop. that really looks genuine and authentic.

[twakefield10]

can u turn it into windows 7

[wolfchimneyrock]

interesting how you chose to play a song that is a modern remake of a song that came out when the original ibm pc was new

[flexyco]

Ah, the spinning up of that harddisk gives it away :)

For fun you could add a 5.25" FH harddisk, just for the noise of it :)

[2wayfreq]

Yeah, That looks like a neat project !! I would do that ONLY to a junked out 5160. I think there should be a "How to"" to get some ideas on the best methods to do this.

[KartSeven1]

What is the song?

[1AppleMaker]

Sweet PC!

[Tiscando]

Looks like you kept the front cover of the old hard drive, did you replace it with a 3.5" one which fits XP on it? How large? Well done for the very ambitious mod!

[pawlikos14]

this shit is motherfucker

[jforb427]

Very nice! I'm building a media (TV) computer right now, using a 5160 case, micro ATX P4 motherobard, dvd drive, but I'm gonna put a Nixie clock into a full height HD face plate. I won't bother with the slot load drive, and it's gonna have usb holes in front too. I already have several working "stock" 5150/5160 machines for the original look.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

how did you make the power switch work at a new power supply?

[phazetex2370]

I love that *CHUNK* of the power switch. That, my friends, is how you turn on a computer!

[turb030031993]

Very nice job!

I want one now :P

[QuizooProductions]

do u want me to tell you how i know u dont use the same computer on your monitor... the answer is quite simply because windows "1.1" barely had a UI and no mouse support so nice try but anyway good video 5/5 you did a great job at moding the 5 1/2 floppy to DVD drive

[shooter83]

@QuizooProductions

read the video description, this is just an XT 5160 case, modded to house a micro ATX motherboard. it's running XP, i just changed the boot screen to the windows 1.1 to give a vintage feel when booting

thanks for the good words about the floppy

[jldyr2]

I had one of these, I think it's in my dad's basement yet. I know it still works, It's next to the old Atari 800. I think that finally died.

[pcxt21]

very nice

[myid9876543]

how the feck did you get the power switch to work like the at ones on an atx mobo? did you completely sacrifice all mobo power control and just make that short ground and the power control pin on the atx connector?

[shooter83]

its a bios setting "turn on after power fail"

the switch disrupts ac voltage from the ATX power supply, just like it did on the original XT power supply.

[007agent0007]

FUNNY

5 STARS

[bent540]

i had this idea ages ago!

fuckign awesme to see it done! man i wish i had done it! i wanna check for old xt cases now :)

5 stars

[Aqwert76]

Can it run Crysis?

[schmidtbag]

wow you did a great job on this, i wish i had this. i'm all about collecting vintage parts and modding cases and you managed to do both. you should link a picture of the inside and the back of it, and use a crt monitor instead of lcd

[TomatoeAssassin]

It reminded me of my first computer running Windows 3.0 - until I saw the disc drive. Then I was totally confused.

??!?!?!??!!!!???!?!

[PeCeTfull]

I liked the style on how you've plugged new school to old school if you know what do I mean.

[chuxanator]

it felt like you were showing off your dvd drive other than the comp itself

[shooter83]

it's my favorite part ;)

[Keijz74]

That would have been cool to do with my first computer, a Commodore PC 10-III. With a 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 inch drive. I think it has been ditched about thirteen years ago.

[douro20]

Did you use a body stud welder to weld in the posts for the ATX mainboard?

[an65001]

what hd are u using?

[wpl955g]

sweet

[kaiyoshi2243]

That's pretty cool! Nice job with the mods. Looks great. Love the DVD floppy drive mod the best.

[stifflerstiffmaster]

you have insert a other mainboard ;)

[johndoex94]

Have you changed the windows xp "splash screen"?

[bnefriends]

Cool, nice work! I would have hooked the internal PC speaker up to a nice sound card though to keep it even more original (I know it's possible to have an internal speaker on a sound card because my school's computers are set up that way).

[hondolespaul]

I just tossed out an IBM Personal Computer XT 5160 casing. A few years ago, I was going to retrofit it with my Compaq Presario PC guts from 2004. That would have been an interesting mod.

[gunman5550531]

Dude this is so awesome man! an 1985 PC running Windows Xp. Now thats major hacking

[VanDiemen08]

Can You fit normal size atx motherboard.

[xsonicsd]

haha, really nice mod, esp the CD-ROM is great xD *ThumbUp*

[HHGFHJGFHJGFJTYFJDGY]

i would have kept the old monitor to. but because its not colour i would try putting an LCD screen inside the old crt screen casing. it would have been funny to see xp on one of those old screens.

[RABBIDGamfan]

Nah, I would try to adapt a color RGB monitor to make it extra authentic.

[skullangel]

Loose the LCD or get a old CRT monitor gut it or use old skool monitor

[Habbloxian]

@skullangel My school has loads of 'em.

[bobba84]

@skullangel or put an LCD panel in an XT screen!

[zsoltixx93]

What the ...?

XP on an

XT?

XD!

[mitch19636]

@zsoltixx93 LOL

[mk553]

That's just brilliant. You ought to start selling some of those. :-)

[Stinger9D9]

Nice work and all, but what's up with the keyboard? This setup NEEDS at least an IBM model M keyboard, or more correctly an 83 key XT keyboard with an adapter to work on with an AT plug (which of course would then need a PS/2 adapter, but hey, this is modding right?).

After all, the best part about those computers was the keyboard. You can't leave that part out!

[Edvinas1995]

The Killers - Shadowplay (2007.11.12)

2:08

[turducken321]

KUDOS! Haha, I found this vid because I was thinking about doing just that with my old IBM. So I typed "old ibm mod" haha.

[user12119]

Your DVD drive is very creative and cool! I want one.

[Aqwert76]

ich lgauub ich weiss wes du do gemacht hast::

1.du hast auf einem aneren computr die dateein

vonna iinstallations cd auf ne discette gehootl,

2.du hest des system das auffer dischkette var installliert.

3.Du hast des diskettlaufwrk manipulierd.

4.du hast den bootscreen ausgefählt und denn haste den booot von windows 1.01

eingestellt.

5.du hast n andres CpU eingebaut.

[poopskinTheLiar]

Awesome!

[PowerPcTricks]

Oh My God! That DVD Drive is just amazing! GREAT work!

[Segasaturn95]

WOAH! It was cool enough to use the XT, but the DVD drive in the 5.25 floppy is AMAZING. Good job!

[DarthScape]

Sweet

[daand12]

I'm confused is now xp or win1,0 ?? and i heard there is not a mfm hdd inside your pc

[stevethepocket]

That's pretty cool. Now all you need to do is figure out how to stick a dismantled LCD screen into a gutted SCD (CGA) monitor.

[klokwrkblu]

or even better, if someone where to make a vga look alike of the original monitor

[Furetgarcon]

i think that if he picked up an old time period monitor then he could Carefully gut it out. get a lcd monitor and stick it in then you have old looks with modern day tech!

[shooter83]

yep, i have a broken ibm 5153 color monitor that was for the XT. that is the next phase of this project.

[klokwrkblu]

When you get around it, just make sure it looks just like the original. Wire a VGA cord up to it and keep the CRT.

[klokwrkblu]

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

Taking something old like that and gutting it would be like painting and angry face on the Mono Lissa. :D

Best Bet Is to get a custom built one that looks identical to the original , but vga compatible. Or to make a graphics card that has the benefits of modern cards but plugs into an old stile monitor.

Doubt anything like that exits but it make one hell a product.

[Furetgarcon]

its called taking a broken one and Updating it. im not suggesting he guts out a old working one im saying you find a broken one then you gut it. no harm done reusing a broken one am i right?!

[2wayfreq]

@Furetgarcon

Yeah, that's what I would do! Find a "Junky" 5160/5150 with a dead board,stripped out or parts etc.. Hopefully it has the floppy and hard drive front cover and then , convert it.

[phazetex2405]

Don't forget to close the drive door!

I swear, computers should still be built as sturdy as this one.

[jdjesse]

ohh my favorite song shadow play and what the fuck are you running windows 1.1 on there for lol thats so old.

[NYz3R0dAY]

he said it was xp lol

n yea, that was a custom bootscreen he made so it shows windows 1.1

[OwlMovieStudios]

lol at first I was wondering "what the heck?" when the cd came out of the floppy drive

[sparky4444444444444]

good for the enviorment ^^

[basementdweller1]

so awesome!

[smithm34]

LOL!

[marcomugnatto]

My first "awesome" in months!

[Pashune]

Awesome!

I was hoping I'd find someone retrofitting a PC on Youtube...and what luck, I ran into this one without even trying =x Good job!

[travis30384]

That's nice.

[SamuraiClinton]

Its good to recycle older shells like that. Also, retrofitting PCI expansion slots is smart too. Even though Windows XP supports ISA, they stopped putting ISA slots on computers before Windows XP even started production.